Lucas, who is opening a new narrative art museum in Los Angeles next year, sold the iconic franchise to Disney in 2012 for $4.05 billion "I'm building a museum. A museum is harder than making movies," he said George Lucas has moved well beyond Star Wars 13 ...

Thirteen years after selling “Star Wars” to Disney, George Lucas has confidently “moved past” the franchise. While talking with WSJ Magazine’s Innovator issue, published Thursday, the father of “Star Wars” explained that he’s “got a life ...

Lucas’ sequel trilogy plans went through many different iterations; he even wrote proposed scripts before he sold Lucasfilm to Disney, believing these would increase the studio’s value and help him get the “Pixar Deal” he initially wanted.

Article Summary Ian McDiarmid says George Lucas once pitched a Star Wars Palpatine TV series before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney. The planned Star Wars series would have followed Emperor Palpatine’s early reign between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. McDiarmid said Lucas compared Palpatine’s rise to Hitler’s and teased an assassination attempt that would not succeed. The reveal ...

When George Lucas released "Star Wars" in 1977, he changed the face of cinema forever. The film doesn't fit perfectly within a single genre, as it stretches the boundaries of what is considered fantasy, science fiction, and Western. Most notably, the film ...